Youth Program 2016

Youth-in-the-Schools Program Powered by STEMArts Lab

The STEMarts LAB@The PASEO youth program for the PASEO 2016 festival placed a Paseo artist into every middle and high school in Taos. Teacher and students worked with the artist up to one week prior and then performed/installed their work live at The PASEO event.

Taos Charter school students in their science lab learn about the aesthetics of videomicrography.

Radio Confessional LEDArtist: Parker Jennings
School: Taos International School
Teacher: Janelle Farwell
Topic: Making lo-tec illuminated signage to bring awareness to the broadcast frequency and producing scheduled programming for the radio booth.Workshop description

Raspao Sound/video cartArtist: Alexandra Gelis
School: VISTA High School
Teacher: Nicole Miceli
Topic: Hacking and creating video and sound for a hybrid audio-visual vehicle/Raspao cart. This moving sculpture serves up snow cones, capturing and playing back sounds and videos while moving through the streets of Taos.Workshop description

Protest with LightArtist: The Illuminator
School: TISA
Teacher: Megan Bowers Avina
Topic: Using light projections as a means of political expression, environmental transformation, and public discourse.Workshop description

Projecting Particles workshop students at Taos High School virtual chat with physicist Dr. Steven Goldfarb at CERN in Geneva Switzerland. The project resulted in a Projected Particles Pop-up in December 2015

Sand RaysArtist: Bert Benally
School: Taos Pueblo Day School
Teacher: Claireen Espinoza
Topic: A light interactive traditional sand painting by the artist who collaborated with Ai Weiwei, on an artwork titled Pull of the Moon, located in the desert of Arizona. Students assist with the design and installation of the sand painting.Workshop description

School: Questa Junior/Senior High School
Teacher: Erica Zito/ Claire Coté, LEAP, coordinator
Topic: Students use the app to create and listen to GPS-tethered memories within the interactive urban landscape of the PASEO and the downtown Taos area.Workshop description

Maker Activities at The Toolbox

LIGHT TOSSSponsored by FUSE Makerspace and STEAM NM
Artist: Matthew Barbato, Americorps VISTA
Site: The Toolbox
Ages: 6 and up
Description: Kids assemble LED Throwies with a colored LED, magnet, battery and some tape, and have fun throwing them at a large scale metal canvas. The collaborative performative process with 500 LEDS Throwies occurs over the 2-night festival. Watch the light painting reveal itself and come alive with random colors and patterns.

SHINE ON!Sponsored by MAKE Santa Fe
Artists: Leah Buechley and Patricia Michaels
Site: The Toolbox
Ages: 10 and up
Description: This 10-minute Maker activity, designed by Leah Beuchley and Patricia Michaels, combines Native American design and electronic paper jewelry. Create your own sparkling interactive wearable–make a bracelet, pin, or barrette and decorate it with native-inspired patterns and LED lights. Combine motifs such as clouds, lightning, and feathers,created byPatricia, with playful paper-based circuits, designed by Leah, to make yourself shine for The Paseo Festival.